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20 July, 00:00

July 20 International Chess Day 1806. The 1805 Franco-Russian War ended with the Paris Peace Treaty.

1993.  The UN Security Council determined that the Russian Supreme Soviet resolution on the status of Sevastopol has no juridical force.

July 21 1941.  Soviet troops abandoned Vinnytsia after fierce fighting.

1956.  The Ukrainian State Circus opened in Kyiv.

July 22 1959.  The An-10 Ukrayina aircraft made its maiden flight from Moscow to Simferopol with passengers on board.

1970.  The USSR Council of Ministers resolved to open the Ternopil Financial and Economic Institute.

July 23 971.  Kyiv Prince Sviatoslav and the Byzantine Empire concluded a peace treaty.

1990.  Leonid Kravchuk was elected Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian SSR.

July 24 1917.  The First All-Ukrainian Workers' Congress was opened.

1943.  The rank of "officer" was reinstated by the Decree of the USSR Supreme Soviet Presidium for the first time after 1917.

July 25 1983.  The construction of a 4451-km-long transcontinental gas pipeline Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhhorod was completed.

1984.  Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman cosmonaut to spacewalk.

July 26 1648.  Insurgents led by Maksym Kryvonis routed Wysznewiecki's Polish army near Starokostiantynov.

1929.  Oleksandr Dovzhenko's classic film, Arsenal, was released.
 

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